Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: Early Botany and Indigenous Plant-Related Knowledge

博士论文研究改进补助金：早期植物学和本土植物相关知识

• 批准号: 2341907
• 负责人: Lawrence Principe
• 金额: $ 1.96万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2341907&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Improvement; Grant

This doctoral dissertation improvement grant supports a project in the history of botany. Specifically, it will examine intercontinental plant transfer during the early colonial period. It aims to use this critical period in the history of science to bring attention to how Indigenous people in the Hispanic world made key contributions to modern botany, as well as exploring how earlier societies dealt with the rapid influx of new information in an Information Age of their own. Many plants are familiar to global audiences, including marigolds from Mexico, citruses from China, lilies from South Africa, and many more. Most of these plants became familiar to global audiences only after the rise of the colonial empires, when regular cross-oceanic voyages made the transfer of plants, animals, people, and information around the world faster and easier than ever before. The results of this project will illustrate the many ways in which people have understood the natural world over time, recognizing the continued co-existence of multiple worldviews in different places. By providing public outreach based in the modern botanical garden, this project will help the public and students connect this period in history to the physical and intellectual world they live in today. In tracing the movement of plants and plant-related knowledge in the early modern Spanish empire, this project brings together archaeological, anthropological, and historical information to better understand how plants moved around the Atlantic. By comparing printed botanical texts with archaeological and documentary evidence about where plants were grown, this project provides new tools for investigating how people thought about plants outside official circles. This space-based method has potential for broader application in extending the history of science to include more groups who did not produce written works in the Western tradition.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个博士论文改进补助金支持植物学历史上的一个项目。具体来说，它将研究在早期殖民时期的洲际植物转移。它旨在利用科学史上的这一关键时期，让人们关注西班牙裔世界的土著人民如何对现代植物学做出重要贡献，并探索早期社会如何在自己的信息时代处理新信息的快速涌入。许多植物为全球观众所熟悉，包括来自墨西哥的金盏花，来自中国的柑橘，来自南非的百合等等。这些植物中的大多数只是在殖民帝国崛起之后才为全球观众所熟悉，当时定期的跨洋航行使植物，动物，人和信息在世界各地的转移比以往任何时候都更快，更容易。这个项目的结果将说明人们随着时间的推移理解自然世界的许多方式，认识到不同地方的多种世界观的持续共存。通过在现代植物园提供公共宣传，该项目将帮助公众和学生将这一历史时期与他们今天生活的物质和知识世界联系起来。在追溯现代西班牙帝国早期植物和植物相关知识的运动中，该项目汇集了考古学，人类学和历史信息，以更好地了解植物如何在大西洋周围移动。通过将印刷的植物学文本与植物生长地的考古和文献证据进行比较，该项目为调查官方圈子之外的人们如何看待植物提供了新的工具。这种基于空间的方法有可能在扩展科学史方面得到更广泛的应用，以包括更多在西方传统中没有产生书面作品的团体。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。